About 300 participants attended a three-day International Conference, ‘Integration of academic courses with vocational education in secondary schools’, held in New Delhi, India from 17 to19 February 2012. The conference was organised by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in...
The European Union’s new Agenda for Adult Learning was launched by the European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou at an event in Brussels on 28 February. It focuses...
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has created an online International Directory of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Research . The Directory is a compilation of over 200 governmental departments, institutions and agencies involved in lifelong learning policy and...
The global mid-term evaluation report on UNESCO’s Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE, 2006-2015), produced by UIL, is now available in print in English and French. The report, entitled Looking Forward with LIFE , takes stock of the first five years of LIFE implementation and recommends...
The third issue of the electronic CONFINTEA VI Follow-up Bulletin features activities undertaken in pursuit of the Belém Framework for Action from July 2011 to January 2012, both within and across countries. It highlights efforts invested to produce national progress reports on the state of...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is adopting a sector-wide approach in establishing a decentralised education system. The country is revising the normative frameworks of its three education sub-sectors – (i) adult and non-formal education, (ii) primary, secondary and professional education and (...
International Mother Language Day (21 February) celebrates all world languages. For the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning a crucial question is: in pursuit of lifelong learning and quality education for all, how do we...
At the suggestion of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), two case studies were featured in a short documentary programme on Euronews’ Learning World last Friday, 10 February. Community learning centres in Thailand and the recognition of prior learning in Mauritius were shown as...
Meetings are being organised in some Latin American countries to support the preparation of National CONFINTEA VI Progress Reports. In Brazil, for example, the National Literacy and Youth and Adult Education Commission (CNAEJA) which includes stakeholders from different sectors around the...
Ministers of education and training, senior representatives of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, civil society organisations and youth representatives will gather at the forthcoming 2012 Triennale on Education and Training in Africa. They will discuss how to design and implement...
